welcome to inside politics thanks for sharing your columbus day with us. i'm dana bash. john king has the day off. one of the most powerful republicans in the senate is taking his private feelings about the president public warning that the trump foreign policy could set the u.s. u on a

path to quote world war iii. it could have an impact on the president's agenda here at home as well as abroad. >> i don't think that airing dirty laundry publicly is a good strategy, going after a senator who's vote you're going to need on tax reform. is not the best strategy. >> plus, less than a month after playing nice with the democrats on daca, the white house wants the wall to be part of the deal. is that the end of the chuck and nancy show? >> they're alarmed this is the what he brings forward as a negotiation proposal. obviously, this is very aggressive, the wall is a nonstarter. >> and the administration playing defense as one nfl player calls vice president pence's walkout over players kneeling a publicity stunt. >> this looks like a pr stunt to

me. he knew our team has had the most players protest. >> to call that a political stunt is truly outrageous and offensive. >> and we begin with a question. did president trump pick a fight with the wrong guy this time? just last week, i'm told mr. trump's aides begged him not to go after bob corker after corker publicly criticized him. on sunday morning, however, the president either saw something on tv or read something that set him off on twitter. he said in part, senator bob corker begged me to endorse him for re-election in tennessee. i said no and he dropped out. said he could not win without my endorsement. senator corker, who announced recently, that he won't seek re-election and therefore is politically unshackled, wasted no time in jabbing back, tweet ing that the white house has become a quote, adult day care center and somebody had missed

their shift. and the tennessee senator didn't stop there. corker got on the phone with "the new york times" and unleashed on the president, saying he is treating his office like a reality show and that his reckless threats could set the nation on a path to world war iii. oh, and corker's office also tells us that the president has facts mixeded up. they say that the president was the one who called corker asking him to reconsider his retirement, assuring the senator that he'd endorse him. let's get more perspective from capitol hill right now. phil matingly joins us. you've been working your sources on the fallout from this among corker's colleagues on capitol hill. what are are you hearing? >> well, look, i think when you talk to republican advisers, aides, they acknowledge that a lot of what senator corker said is shared by many in their conference. there's a lot of frustration and concern. they vraren't necessarily thrild that's being aired publicly and

on the record. there's a reason. the reason you see republicans really kind f of hold their fire here is there's a recognition that this is a republican house, republican senator and there's somebody sitting in the oval office that will sign their legislative priorities. on the agency level, there are rulings that go in line with with conservative principles than many thought possible. certainly over the course of the last decade, so there are reasons to stay in line with this white house. most notably, the fact they're working on tax reform and they want to move this through, but what you heard from corker and he said he was speaking for a lot of his colleagues or reflecting what a lot of them said is something that's very real going on right now. concern about the president. concern that he continually uns undercuts them, about what's going on outside the political allies he has that are attacking sitting senators, raising money against sitting senators. whether or not they want republicans to succeed. i have one senior gop aide night e-mail this. there are a lot of conspiracy theorys now, but fact they're out there has a serious effect

on our guys. you want to put it just on tax reform. a big legislative issue here. there's concern that the president undercuts them, they'll fail again legislatively. that will have huge ramifications going forward. a lot of distrust that corker laid out fully in that "new york times" interview. >> he sure did. thank you for that reporting. here with me to share their reporting, manu. jonathan martin of "the new york times"s and margaret, of bloomberg. i'm going to start with you, jonathan martin. you were on the other end of the phone with bob corker. tell us everything that you couldn't fit in a paper. >> how much time do we have? >> so, senator corker spoke for about 25 minutes call iing from tennessee on his cell phone. the it's important the know that this was not just some sort of whim or he happened to pick up his cell phone as he was pulling into the harris teeter as he was hopping for the week. he called with two of his

staffers on the line. one taping our phone call and he very much knew what he was doing and as he point ee eed out to m he's been basically, my words, not his, but staging a kind of slow rolling republican intervention now for a period of months. every time he's spoken up, after charlottesville, whether it was last week when he said that tillerson, mattis and kelly were basically standing in the breach against chaos or with me, he knows what he is doing. this is a premeditated plan. he's trying to basically stiffen the spine of some of his colleagues who feel the same way, but aren't as eager to go on the record, but secondly, he's trying to send a message of support to kelly, the chief of staff, jim mattis and rex tiller zo tillerson that they've got allies in the congressional branch of the government and that there are folks pulling for them and hope iing to keep the president under control.

it's extraordinary, but that's what he thinks. that's why he's doing this. i think the most striking thing that he said to me that wasn't in the story was he said, almost mocking the, those who kind of rationalize trump saying oh, well, he had a good day yesterday, okay. basically, using the voice of those who sort of treat this president like he's an adolescent in some ways who has good days and bad days with his behavior. it's extraordinary. that he was sort of talk in those terms, but do so publicly and creating this enormous pressure on his colleagues who as he pointed out to me, they all say this. >> let me read the quote. that you got from senator corker. mr. corker said his concerns about mr. trump were shared by nearly every senate republican. except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we're dealing with here. he said adding that of course, they understand the volatility that we're dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to

keep him in the middle of the road. him meaning the president. you spend every day on capitol hill. you spend a lot of time talking to senator corker, but other republicans. he does, we have to be careful because a lot of things we do here are off the record, but he has a point. >> he does and the thing that corker has been trying to do is keep the president in the middle of the road as jonathan pointed out in his piece. the other senators have tried to do something spectacular. lindsey graham is out playing golf with president trump today. graham has been a sharp critic, also of the president. this is something that a number of members have tried to do, this is why they have meetings with the president. why some don't believe that the strategy of going out and publicly criticizing trump is necessarily going to be effective because the it's going to create this twitter war with him or they'll get under a lot of heat from a lot of trump supporters, so instead, they try to may privately voice concerns, but try to work behind the

scenes to work with the president in a way to bring him back towards where they believe is a middle course. what was also striking about the corker interview is that after his comments on charlottesville, he went out and said that the president had not shown competency or stability yet to do the job effectively. when i talked to him afterwards and he got in spat with the white house, he said his thoughts there were he had thought very carefully about what he said. went on a long walk that morning and said what he said because he wanted to deliver a message. this is what he wanted to do here because of the concerns largely about tiller and some of these other voices. >> audience of one is the phrase he used with me yesterday so all these comments are an audience of one. >> and the fact he obviously understands what we have all come to understand, that it's good to be listened to more acutely by this president if he does it through the "new york times," through the media,

rather than pick up the phone and calling him. >> through twitter and the media, the two. >> which is really remarkable and accurate. >> there's another audience, too. it's october 9th now and sometime fween now and the end of the week, the president is going the come out and go public with his approach to have a deal with the iran deal that he dislikes so much and all the thinks has been around the idea of desertification, although how he'll do it, what the message will be. precisely how the coordination with the hill happens will be important and part of what's been on corker and everyone's mind who has a stake in iran policy is how the white house's message is heard and absorbed by european partners, by cosignatories on the deal by iranian themselves, by the entire world. we've seen the president's actions so far on the paris on the global climate deal, the way the president has sent mixed signals on nato and commitment

to that. the white house is handling of this iran deal not just in terms of what they do, but in terms of how they do it is so crucial and for the secretary of state, for the defense secretary, you have to look at messaging, for the congress that needs to figure out what to do if they have 60 days to act or not act. all of this is very much on their mind. >> and corker is working behind the sacenes in an aggressive wa with the secretary of state to try to thread that needle, which is sort of an important reminder that he is not just an important voice in the republican senate, he's the foreign relations chairman. >> that's right. >> warning for the "new york times" that the president of the united states who is in his same party, could start world war iii. >> it's a remarkable moment just to step back and look at republican foreign relations chairman talk iing about the president in such stark terms in the media, publicly, obviously, trying to get to the president through the you know, the media that the president watches so

closely. but he is voice iing the concer that you hear from republicans behind the scenes, especially when you see the president tweet ing about north korea saying diplomacy is not going to work. there's only one thing that's going to work. there are a lot of people who are afraid when they hear that and senator corker knows the foreign relations committee and he knows his members well and he knows there are a lot of people who are worried that the president is tweeting things that are setting the global stage aflame without any strategy. >> yeah, there's certainly that perspective and that angle, then there's also we have a list of the republican senators again, people in his own party who are down pennsylvania avenue, who the president has publicly criticized. that's just maybe some of them, but there are a lot of them, okay. a fifth of the republican senate. a fifth of the republican senate. now, here's some perspective. that is true, but as i was reminded by the administration official this morning, most of those senators and even those who are not a public target of

the president, they didn't want him in the white house in the first place, so a lot of them are kind of gritting their teeth because the voters decided. >> yeah, that's the bigger picture here, right, is that this party is as divided now as it was during the campaign last year. and those divisions are not healing. in fact, some ways, they're getting worse. steve bannon is going around the country looking for any 2018 senate seat and trying to figure out a way to intervene and there are people in the party who still can't come to terms with the fact that trump is the president and the leader of their party and he hasn't taken on that role himself necessarily because he's not -- >> he has not determined how to get legislation through congress. the way is not to publicly shame his senators. senators tend to dig in when that happens. there are ways to work behind the scenes with him and get someone on board. >> before break, the question has been every time there's a

public spat with somebody senior on capitol hill, is this going to be the dam breaking? the time when all these other republicans say publicly what they say privately? what's your sense? >> i don't think so. because i think that this party has come to the realization right now, they have to get tax reform. >> tax reform is the dam breaking. >> then all hell will break loose. >> and the voters are still with trump more than the congressal gop. it's a blame trump last approach, right? they're going to get to the democrats, the media, the hill. the white house staff, the last person that the voters are going to blame is trump himself. >> we have a lot more to talk about with regard to the republican fighting and what that means for the next election of 201, but up next, the trump administration raises the bar on any possibtential deal to prote daca recipients and top democrats are surprised, they say, because they thought they had a deal.

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nearly ten months into the trump administration, no deal on replacing obamacare or tax reform or a deal on so-called dreamers. late sunday, the white house released a list of priorities it wants in exchange for any agreement to protect young, undocumented immigrants. hundreds of thousands of whom could face deportation. the lengthy list there, but on it includes a funding, excuse me, mandatory funding for the border wall. a nonstarter for most democrats. senate and house democratic leaders, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi who thought they hatched a makings of an immigration deal over chinese food and ice cream with the president last month say new demands are just way out of bounds and they put out a joint statement in which they say in part, we told the president at our meeting that we are open to reasonable border security measures alongside the dream act, but this list goes

far beyond what is reasonable. this proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise. the list includes the wall, which was explicitly ruled out of negotiations and we're back with our panel. certainly, the, that big talk about having a deal and not including the border wall, which of course the president campa n campaigned on you know, all across the country. seemed to have been something that the president really did, that really did say was okay and he was okay with because he didn't say it privately, he said it publicly. listen to the president the day after he met with the democratic leaders. >> the wall will come later. we're right now renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, they need it brand-new. we're doing a lot of renovations, we're building four different samples of the wall to

see which one we're going to choose and the wall is is going to be built, funded later. >> okay, so the question is, this new list of priorities, whether or not it is just posturing or for the conservative base or whether it is real. what do you think the answer is? >> the president wrote the art of the deal. this is his strategy of putting out your most you know, strong offer, putting everything you want into it then sort of working backyawards from it. we also heard this rumor about how the president will depend on the last person he spoke to, the last person in the room, so when he finished speaking to chuck and nancy, he said there's not going to be a wall. i guess he had steven miller and other aides before putting out this list and now, he's saying this is what he needs in order to protect the daca program. it's clear this is starting bid. democrats say it's a nonstarter,

but you have 750,000 dreamers, young people, who for most of the country based on poll, most of the country does not want these people to be deported, so they're going to have to come up with something that's not going to look like what the president and white house put out last night. >> i'm told the white house staff is really divided on this. at the end of the day though, the president wants to make a deal, so is this just you think to make those steven millers of the staff sort of feel better that they're at least sending the right signals to the conservative base before the deal is cut? >> there are clear divisions on this. lasting divisions and the president himself is a little bit divided on precisely what to do. i was there that day. where he was headed out with his cap and made that comment. he did explicitly say i'm not walking away from the wall, but it does u not have to be part of this deal. that's what he said. everything he's put forward through the messaging of the last 24 hours, 48 hours, has

changed all of that. so, you know, i think this is a real mixeded message, mixed signal and the question for everyone now has he change d hi mind again or is this doing leg work with the base so when he signs off on a deal, he can say he fought. >> let's just remind people where this sits. with the american public. this idea of allowing so-called dreamers to have legal status at least. 82% want what's known as daca, the obama executive order to continue. 63% oppose building an entire southern border wall. 55%, excuse me, oppose changes to federal law and reduced legal immigration, but this top number is really the key here. it's a huge, it's really the many in the conservative base don't want it, but in an off year election, the conservative base matters. >> and trump cares about optics above all. he he was going to get bad coverage if he came out against

daca. but this is one of the classic stories that really demonstrates the pearls of covering president trump in this era in washington because you know, is this some kind of grand strategy where as you get at he's starting by being sort of hawk and he's going to bargain to some kind of compromise or are we giving him too much credit for a grand strategy and it really is just him making it up as he goes. not always clear. i'll tell you what senator corker said to me yesterday. he said this idea of good cop bad cop, it didn't make sense. just president trump popping off basically. >> particularly on republicans. the reason why -- >> a for amnesty, man. they're worried. >> passed the senate, they did not bring in the house, this republican controlled, could have passed because it caused this revolt within the republican congress. it's going to be incredibly

difficult to get a dream act passed, daca passed or anything done on this issue because you're going to need bipartisan support in the senate to get it done. then if they get bipartisan support, it's going to go to the house. >> and dems are going to have to pass it. >> that's why you need presidential support. you need a presidential leadership to bring the base along because you need to do it in a bipartisan way. stand by, coming up, players kneel down and the vice president heads for the exit. we'll talk about his decision to leave and what that trip cost you the taxpayer. yaaay! the complete balanced nutrition of ensure with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. ensure. always be you.

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tweeted the trip by vp pence was long planned. he is receiving great praise for leaving game after the players showed such disrespect. pence said he was standing in solidarity. afterwards, he tweeted i left today's colts game because we will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, flag or national anthem. we know this was discussed by the president and vice president ahead of time. a lot to discuss like what was the price tag for that? to help answer that question, cnn's renee marsh b joins me live. renee, what are you finding out about how much all of this is costing taxpayers? >> well, the air force says it cost them $30,000 per hour to fly a c-32. the aircraft that the vice president flies on. air force two. vice president pence flight from

las vegas to indianapolis on saturday took about three hours and 20 minutes. and cost about $100,000. pence then flew from indianapolis to los angeles on sunday and that flight was about four hours and 45 minutes and the cost was about $142,500, so the grand total, nearly a quarter million dollars. now, had pence skipped the game, which he left rather early and flew straight to los angeles where he was scheduled to attend a fund-raiser, the trip would have cost much less. about $45,000. total. now, of these flight costs we're talk iing about here, they do n include the cost of advanced personnel, secret service and even support on the ground. some of the costs we should point out though of the flight specifically to los angeles, that will be reimbursed by the republican national committee because was attending a political event there, but this morning, critics are calling

this a rather expensive political stunt on taxpayers' dime. no one is questioning whether the vice president should be flying on air force two. that goes without saying, but what they are saying is whether they knew that they were going to do this ahead of time. you mentioned the president's tweet. about talking to the vice president and telling him to leave. also we know from pool reports there, the press was told stay in the vab van because the vice president won't be here very long, so the criticism is they knew what they were going to do going into this game, dana. >> thaupg so much. that's an important point. nobody is saying the vice president shouldn't go to a football game or you know, do some of the things that you know, they're going to do as citizens of this country. and yes, it just costs a lot more because they happen to need certain kind of plane. secret service, so on and so forth, but to renee's point, if

the vice president knew ahead of f time that he was going to go and leave, that's what the president basically suggested, that is certainly the vibe that the pool got when they were told stay in the vans, the press pool. what does that say? >> the president tweeted, he said i asked the vice president to do this basically. and the president brought this up and made this an issue a couple of weeks ago in alabama when not many people in the country were talking about nfl protests. that led to a big backlash on the nfl field, so players decided to take the knee. a number of were in opposition to the president, not necessarily over the issues brought up by the initial protest. this is starting to die down again. not too many people were talking about it, then the vice president does this stunt and his office not only tweeted out, but sent out a statement to reporters, sent out a picture to reporters. they wanted this to be what we're talking about today, whether to distract from something else or just to have this cultural issue which president trump thinks is a

winner for him in the news. it's something they see as a positive political strategy and it's not going to go away as long as the president and vice president are using their political capital to talk about the nfl. >> he could have made the same point by putting on a statement or twitter saying i'm not going to go to the colts game because the 49ers players were neiling on the sidelines and i object to this. they say they used media, use twitter as a median to go to the american public, he could have done this on twitter rather than doing it this way. the vice president put ott tut statement last night, saying he would have went back to washington before going back to los angeles. so he was in vegas, they said if he hadn't gone to indianapolis, he was going to washington, back to los angeles. why not stay the night in las vegas and go to l.a. the next day? wouldn't that save taxpayer dla? >> this has been an odd posture

for this vice president. >> you think a little bit? >> yeah. he's been a xwood good solgs for the president. stood by him at many policy points throughout the opening months of his presidency that didn't always seem in keeping with mike pence's history, but for those of us who have covered him over the years, he's been a great defernd of free speech and freedoms of speech. i mean, that's absolutely right. this is out of sync with that, this seems he's in line with the president against his own history of how he would support things. where do you draw the line about what's patriotic activity? can you go get a hot dog during the national anthem? if you kneel and put your hand over your heart, is that patriotic enough? the white house is going out of its way to drive home a message. i'm not sure where this all -- >> it's a good issue for them. the politics of it are are a winner. kneeling during "the national

anthem" is a better political issue for the party that is on the side of standing on the side of kneeling. that's just what the math is. the issue to me is that there are trying to basically polarize the electorate and ensure that you have this sort of tribal politics next to you and beyond, so they can retain loyalty of their base regardless of their agenda succeeds here or not. next year, if you don't have tax reform t appeal of obamacare, you would at least have the kind of cultural attachment that were on the side of the flag and country and the other side is not. so, it's almost like they're looking for some kind of a sort of outlet where they can't get policy passed, they would to have a cultural next year. >> that's a very nice segway for our next segment, about steve bannon, who of course is the president's former chief

strategist, expands his list of republicans he wants to leave the u.s. senate. how bannon is doing that, what he's up to, stay with us.

president trump isn't the only one openly waring with republican senators. his former chief strategist, steve bannon, is on a mission to try to defeat many of them at the polls next year. he's taking it upon himself to recruit at least half a dozen republican candidates to challenge their fellow republican senators. after bannon's candidate beat president trump and mitch mcconnell's guy in the alabama senate primary run off, bannon is now going after republican

incumbents in nebraska, utah, mississippi, nevada, wyoming, even trying to recruit blackwater founder, eric prince, so run against john barasso, a member of the senate gop leadership. one interesting omission from the list is senator ted cruz. what do you make of this? he's steve bannon. he's making it his mission i'm told, i did reporting before the show, nationalize the 2018 election for the republicans and to make the whole notion of where is the republican party a really big issue across the board, across these races, that aren't supposed to be racist. >> he wants to trumpi fy the primaries next year and basically do next year what we saw in 2012 and 2014 in a much more organized fashion.

these tea party candidates or so-called candidates running as insurgents or incumbents, and i think it's a version of that, but perhaps more organized, perhaps better financed by the mercer family and then also, i think with a more tangible goal of finding people who a, support president trump and b more importantly, oppose mcconnell. he is trying to extract from these candidates a litmus test. >> i think that i would be very surprise d if any of these incumbent republican senators lose their primaries next year because because of the nature of the states as well as the fact that even if they are well financeded, there's going to be a lot of money going towards these candidates. very difficult to be an incumbent in a primary, much easier in an open seat like alabama. >> exactly. >> well said.

right. but the real concern is that if you are forced to spend money in the primaries, what about those seats that you want to pick up next year, those red seats that democratic senators hold. that's going to be much harder to do and that could also divide the base if these primaries get very messy and lead to problems with the party. >> you just hit on something that's a part of bannon's strategy i'm told is to really flood the zone. and to try the force mitch mcconnell to defend not just a couple of the most vulnerable senate republicans, but even those who might not be that vulnerable, but they want to make sure that they're not going anywhere, whether it's deb fisher of nebraska or john ba barasso and people like that, but the other thing you talked about money, i'm told bannon is trying to convince mcconnell donors to cut off money. that he's actively tried to do that to what i'm told is choke the oxygen of the establishment

candidates. >> if you're president trump and this is what we talk about all the time on the show. you have to decide whether you want to disrupt or whether you want to govern and whether it's possible to do both. but if you're steve bannon, you don't have to make that decision. you just have to decide to disrupt. the question for president trump is if you end the year without tax reform, if you end the year, the year or perhaps your first term without a replacement for obamacare, does it, who does it hurt more? you or the house speaker and the senate president more? because if you can take them out first and that's what you want to do, you have to the disruption factor. now, it's less clear to me whether trump has decided that's what hemts. >> i want to play for you, something that rush limbaugh said recently about bannon and the role he has in the gop. >> i think what bannon is doing is slowly but surely taking over the role of the republican party.

the republican's on balance not with trump. bannon is attempting to put together a group of people who are. who call themselves republicans. >> this is a really important point and it kind of circumstancircles back to where we started the show about corker and other republican senators who never wanted trump to begin with. the cat's out of the bag now. >> that kind of leads to one of the challenge ifs frus for pres. he doesn't like others getting the credit chlgt so when it seems bannon is the master mind behind trump's victory and the new head of the republican party, that makes it less likely that trump will get behind some of these bannon-backed candidates. he's not a big fan of mcconnell right now and he backed mitch mcconnell's candidate in the alabama primary lost, so he does not want to get burned again. he's between rock and hard place in trying to decide what to do. >> that's going to be the ultimate question. what does president trump do in these primaries. he typically back from your own

party when you're president. as we know, this president, who knows what he'll do. >> and alabama shows doesn't really matter because the president backed the establishment candidate. trump voters with the help of steve bannon backed the insurgent and the insurgent won. >> from alabama is that yes, strange had some issues with his appointment that were localized, but trump couldn't transfer his popularity and get closer than 9.5 points. if you're roger whittaker and you're counting on trump's endorsement, that's not a good sign. >> we have to take a quick break then get to the next segment, my favorite. iv ivana trump opening up in a new interview, turns out she still talks to her ex-husband and gives him advice about one of his most controversial presidential habits.

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ivanka trump dishes the details on her relationship with president trump, his twitter habits an parenting. it's all part of a push the promote her new book, raising trump, in which she says she deserves credit for raising the kids. they split 25 years ago, but talk regularly and while vivan a is complimentary of the president, she's also taking credit where credit is due. here's what she told c brbs. >> he wouldn't be who he is without you. >> that's for sure. >> if we're going to talk about who raise d the trump kids -- >> it was definitely me. >> and when it comes to the president's twitter habits, she says she's all for it. >> he asks me b about should i tweet, should i not tweet. b i said, i think you should tweet. it's new, a new technology and if you want to get your words

across rightly without telling the "new york times" which is going to twist every single word of yours, this is how you get your message out. it's a tweeting president. this is his new way how to put the message across and he's right. >> i could have watched this interview for like hours and hours and hours. it was so fascinating. she went after you, "new york times", would you like to respo respond? >> no, i appreciate her taking the opportunity on national tv to promote nytimes.com, which you can get print or digital. plug. >> what did you think of the interview? i thought it was fascinating because she you could see why she was married to donald trump. >> i think john kelly just found out if he didn't know, a new person he needs to keep commune cases with with the president. the thing about president trump that we've come to learn is that even though you're fired is like his catch phrase, nobody ever really getting fired or kickeded

out of president trump's universe. at some points, the more acro moan yous the fall outis, the more likely they are to continue to remain in touch, so we can all extrapolate from this, that not only is he still in touch, he's still in touch with basically every former adviser who's worked with the white house. >> true. >> every senator he's gone to war with, too. he calls people up randomly all the time. >> talking with lindsey graham as we speak. >> cell phone number he read on national tv. a new cell phone number and now -- >> back to ivan na because i want to play this sound bite. this is another jam from the interview about whether or not, actually, why she didn't want to be ambassador to the czech republic. >> i love this. >> iches just offered to be american ambassador to czech b republic and donald told me, said, if you want it, i give it to you, but i like my freedom. why would i go and say bye bye

to my young inventer, to st. troe tropez and bye bye to spring and fall in network new york? i have a perfect life. >> who can argue with that? would you say bye bye to st. tropez in the winter and summer? >> i wanted to see that confirmation hearing. >> it would have been awesome. >> for bob corker's committee would bring you back full circle. >> that was my favorite part because she says i just got called eded up and the presiden says you can have it if you want it. this shows how the president operates. he gets on the phone. he's improvisational. hands out the goodies of the president to his friends and he's very, he takes things and handles things off the cuff and seems like that's what he was doing. >> my favorite, i'll leave you guys out of this, when she said about dating, she would rather

be a babysitter than a nurse. meaning she likes younger guys. >> which would explain a lot. >> i love that. >> the whole thing was great masterful. >> it was. look forward to reading it and who knows how many other former trump wives or others will come out with, but it's noteworthy they still talk once a week. >> good for the kids. >> thank you for joining us. john king is back tomorrow. wolf blitzer is up right after a break. d extra calories from cooking with too much butter and oil. introducing new pam spray pump. with 1 gram of fat and ten calories per serving plus the superior non-stick you love. hashtag omeletgoals new pam spray pump.

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